Hi Monks,

I put the following code to run on a linux box and tried to run it but it gave me some error 

use strict;
use warnings;
use DateTime::Format::Strptime;
my $Strp = new DateTime::Format::Strptime(pattern     => '%Y-%b-%d %T'
+,);
my $infile = 'log.txt';
my $outfile = 'report.txt';
my($fh_out, $fh);
my %lookup;
my $channel = 'TWO';
my $time_delta = 3600;  # seconds = 1 hour
open($fh_out, '>', $outfile) or die "Could not open outfile: $!";
open($fh, '<', $infile) or die "Could not open logfile: $!";
while (<$fh>) {
    next unless /$channel/;
    $_ =~ m/^(.*) UTC.*refs = (\d+)$/;
    my $dt = $Strp->parse_datetime($1);
    my $timestamp = $dt ->epoch();
    my $refs = $2;
    if ( defined($lookup{$refs}) && $lookup{$refs} + $time_delta <= $t
+imestamp ) {
        print $fh_out "REFS $refs: occurrences at " . $lookup{$refs} .
+ "and $timestamp \n";
        print "REFS $refs: occurrences at " . $lookup{$refs} . " and $
+timestamp \n";
    }
    $lookup{$refs} = $timestamp;
}
close $fh_out;
#close $fh;

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The error seems to stem from here 

    my $dt = $Strp->parse_datetime($1);
    my $timestamp = $dt ->epoch();
    my $refs = $2;

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the $1 and $2 ...

I wonder where did i go wrong ...

In reply to need help on declaring variables by tuakilan

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